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How to use the word Maintained in a Sentence? Page #8

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I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life's body of work, i couldn't be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.

Rich Robinson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They (authorities) didn't do anything to explain to the EU why assistance was given, this is the national identity of Cyprus which must be maintained. Staff believe the government should do its utmost to keep the company operational, or launch a fresh start with an investor.

Petros Souppouris

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is the national identity of Cyprus which must be maintained. Staff believe the government should do its utmost to keep the company operational, or launch a fresh start with an investor.

Petros Souppouris

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The purchaser responded that he did not recognize the painting, that he had no record of purchasing it and he maintained this position.

Gil Marmol

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I maintained from the very beginning that I did not violate the law.

Sanford Rubenstein

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Mr. Rubenstein has maintained from the outset that the woman in question was not drunk, she was not drugged and she was not raped.

Benjamin Brafman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Over the last year, you and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's government have been unafraid of challenges, have united in struggle, steadily pushed forward various projects, maintained Hong Kong's broad stability and realized new development, the central government offers full approval of your work and the work of the Special Administrative Region's government.

Li Keqiang

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The entertainment segment has maintained profitability for 18 years straight, and as a generator of stable profit, it is a major pillar of the Sony Group.

Bilingual Hirai

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The political class wasn't ready. Youth maintained the pressure so the army did what the people wanted.

Luc Marius Ibriga

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is too extravagant to be maintained.

Chief Justice John Marshall

added by anonymous
9 years ago

van Vogt is not a giant as often maintained. He's only a pygmy using a giant typewriter

Damon Knight

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

Robert E. Lee

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

David Hume

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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10 years ago

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Emma Goldman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

added by anonymous
13 years ago

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.

Clifford Truesdell

added by anonymous
13 years ago

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

H. L. Mencken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic andor military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Joseph Goebbels

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.

John Russell

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

Carl L. Becker

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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